European Tyre Intelligence: New Service Maps Recovery to 2032
European Tyre Recycling Data
Astutus Research has launched a market intelligence service tracking the generation, management and export of used and end-of-life tyres across Europe, pairing a twice-yearly database with an annual forecast report running to 2032.
The annual report, Tire Recovery & Recycling in Europe, 2032, covers 20 European markets with a closer focus on 15 in Western Europe. The database behind it is refreshed twice a year.
What the Dataset Measures
Astutus puts European used tyre generation at approximately 4.4 million tonnes in 2025, essentially flat on the prior year. Passenger car and light truck tyres account for about 2.8 million tonnes, truck and bus tyres for 1.2 million tonnes, and specialty tyres for roughly 0.4 million tonnes.
Replacement demand drives around 92% of that volume. Vehicle scrappage contributes the remaining 8%, a split that matters for anyone sizing feedstock supply against fleet turnover rather than new vehicle sales.
The service also tracks exports, treatment systems and regulatory developments. Astutus forecasts European used tyre generation to rise by almost 350,000 tonnes by 2032, taking the total above 4.7 million tonnes.
Exports Remain the Open Question
Reported exports of used and waste tyres from Western Europe, including the UK, Norway and Switzerland, reached 1.7 million tonnes in 2025. On the company’s figures, at least half of Western Europe’s end-of-life tyres are reported as leaving the EU.
That is the number European recyclers and pyrolysis developers should be watching. Export routes absorbing half a region’s arisings sit one policy decision away from closing, and when they close the tonnage has to land somewhere domestic.
Astutus notes that new production-scale pyrolysis plants are planned in Europe while the rules governing exports and waste classification could change. The two trends move together: tighter export rules improve the economics of local recovery, and credible local capacity makes tighter rules politically possible.
Who the Service Targets
The platform is aimed at tyre manufacturers, EPR schemes, recyclers, pyrolysis developers, cement producers, investors and policymakers. That list is effectively every party obliged to commit capital against a feedstock curve it does not control.
For developers the value sits less in the headline tonnage than in the country-level detail. A pyrolysis or recovered carbon black project lives or dies on secured feedstock inside a sensible haulage radius, and national totals rarely reveal whether that radius is already contested.
Independent, repeatable data of this kind also strengthens the bankability case. Lenders discount developer-supplied feedstock assumptions; third-party volume forecasts that update on a fixed schedule are far easier to underwrite.
Bankable Recovery Capacity for European Tyre Volumes
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